“…Then I remembered something else: his son had seen him losing ground, limping, staggering back to the rear of the column. He had seen him. And he continued to run on in the front, letting the distance between them grow greater.
A terrible thought loomed up in my mind: he had wanted to get rid of his father!”
This is another incredibly powerful quote from the book: Night. It was possibly the qoute that shoked me the most in the whole book. To suffer so much for so much time that you end up wanting to lose your own father, I really just cannot imagine such despair. Especially after the things that Elie Weisel says about Rabbi Eliahou (the father), because he portrays him as a nice and compassionate figure. I feel that to be on the brink of abandoning your weakened father for YOUR own sake is selfish and it simply doesn't fit in my mind how someone could do that. There were other quotes similar to this one, for example: Some guy beat his own father to death for a piece of bread, and Elie himself couldn't do anything to try and save his own father after he got sick.
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